Thread Number: 74223
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Self-service laundry on board our cruise ship |
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Post# 980096   1/27/2018 at 10:29 (2,252 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)   |   | |
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One week ago today, my honey and I completed a 7 day Mexican Rivera cruise on Princess Cruises (yes same one as on the "Love Boat" TV show). We had a really wonderful time and we'd love to go on another cruise.
Anyway... Not all cruise lines offer self-service laundry facilities for their guests, but Princess does. There's one located on each deck with staterooms and at lease on this ship, the equipment is all Maytag. We packed enough that we didn't need to use it, but it's nice to know it's there if anyone needs it!
Disclaimer: I posted this in Imperial because the machines look old enough to qualify. Robert: please move to Deluxe of you feel this post should be there instead.
Photo #1 The entry door.
#2. Inside, each is located between the hallways on each side of the ship. 4 washers, 4 dryers and 4 irons / ironing boards, detergent and token vending machines.
#3. Looks like real Maytag equipment, not rebadged Whirlpools.
#4. Tub shot - definitely Maytag!
#5. The cost. As everything is cash-less onboard, you used your "cruise card" to get tokens and it's charged to your shipboard account.
#6. Our ship, the Ruby Princess, docked in Puerto Villarta Mexico. Completed in 2008, refurbished Dec 2015, 951 feet long, 195 feet high, 113,561 tonnes, 19 decks, 3080 guests and 1200 crew!
Kevin
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Post# 980106 , Reply# 1   1/27/2018 at 11:50 (2,252 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 980110 , Reply# 2   1/27/2018 at 13:40 (2,251 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 980111 , Reply# 3   1/27/2018 at 13:45 (2,251 days old) by wft2800 (Leatherhead, Surrey)   |   | |
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Looks like the machines were distinctly secondhand when the ship was built. Personally, I'm not a fan of these gigantic floating tower blocks, with their slow speed and dubious seaworthiness... give me a real 30+knot ocean liner like the late lamented SS France any day. |
Post# 980118 , Reply# 4   1/27/2018 at 14:29 (2,251 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 980131 , Reply# 5   1/27/2018 at 16:49 (2,251 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Interesting. I was just Bit$ing a few days ago because none of the cruise ships we have been on had self-service laundry. Usually its not a problem but it could be handy. We are getting ready to do a 9day cruise and i wished they offered self-service because we would not have to pack as much. This will be the longest cruise we have ever been on and our bags are usually pretty full even with careful packing and planning.
Good to know it actually does exist. |
Post# 980135 , Reply# 6   1/27/2018 at 17:01 (2,251 days old) by chetlaham (United States)   |   | |
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Post# 980165 , Reply# 7   1/27/2018 at 21:10 (2,251 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of modern cruise ships. REAL liners were the best, ships like the RMS Queen Mary, QE2, and the SS United States(which I might add still holds the Blue Riband).
Dubious seaworthiness, indeed. Not only with regard to rough seas, but also with reliability. There were rarely ever failures on ships that used steam turbines or non electronic diesel-electric. Azimuth pods are a failure waiting to happen, long live shafts and rudders! |
Post# 980206 , Reply# 9   1/28/2018 at 08:23 (2,251 days old) by wft2800 (Leatherhead, Surrey)   |   | |
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Alas, I am too young to have had any experience of a real liner, and I fear I never shall... but to batter your way across the North Atlantic in winter at 30+ knots must have been quite something. |
Post# 980249 , Reply# 10   1/28/2018 at 12:49 (2,251 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)   |   | |
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We took an Alaskan cruise on a Princess ship several years ago and it had s self-serv laundry with Maytags. They were the short stroke models very much like the ones on your ship. |
Post# 980268 , Reply# 11   1/28/2018 at 15:03 (2,250 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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Post# 980295 , Reply# 12   1/28/2018 at 18:33 (2,250 days old) by Kenmore_Elite (Cal)   |   | |
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Post# 980310 , Reply# 13   1/28/2018 at 19:39 (2,250 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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You said yourself that the azimuth pods and fins do the stabilizing, I ask, what happens when those fail? You have a top-heavy, un-maneuverable ship at the mercy of rough seas. With older ships that were designed for the usually rough conditions of the north Atlantic that would pose less issue, as the rudder was usually fail safe with multiple redundant methods to operate it. Even if the rudder was lost, these liners were also built to withstand massive rogue waves almost as big as the ship itself without sustaining structural damage.
I do agree about incompetent crew, however. Every time there is a rail accident all everyone can do is scream about why positive train braking was never installed. The massive amount of rail accidents since the turn of the century in my personal opinion are all down to crew error. We are on the way to having twice as many accidents in this century as the previous. We have what should be, by all accounts safer rail equipment than ever before but more accidents. The answer has to be the crew. Also for positive train braking to be installed it has to be done by the freight companies who own the track not Amtrak who operate passenger service, and they have no interest in doing as such. Amtrak really needs to be renegotiated and rechartered. |
Post# 980330 , Reply# 15   1/29/2018 at 01:04 (2,250 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 980365 , Reply# 16   1/29/2018 at 06:51 (2,250 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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With all of the games the airlines play-I don't travel AT ALL-if I have to go-will drive or see if I can take a train. |
Post# 980452 , Reply# 19   1/29/2018 at 16:56 (2,249 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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I cruised on the QE2 in 1987 from Southampton to New York in deepest December--it was quite something with the pool in the bowels of the ship having waves equal in amplitude to what was going on in the ocean outside the ship. It was really a fun experience--one stayed in for the entire trip and there were marathon Trivial Pursuit games with mixed US and UK card decks so no one really had an advantage.
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